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THUMBS DOWN! RESIDENTS FAVOR PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTING

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Marqui Vega of Harmony Martial Arts & Fitness takes a moment to teach the Easter Bunny a couple of self-defense moves at Southside Mall Saturday, April 8. For Easter activities, see B1

Newcomer Will Depart City Council

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ommon Council member Paul van der Sommen has told Mayor Gary Herzig he is resigning after his wife Sue accepted a job in Florida.

Van der Sommen’s wife, an executive at Bassett HealthIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA care, will join Johns Hopkins “Show of hands, how many of you are against starting a volunteer fire department?” asked Ellen Blaisdell at the end of the All Children’s Hospital in Town of Oneonta Board of Fire Commissioners public yearing Tuesday, April 11, on spurning professional firefighting coverage St. Petersburg. Owner of and starting a volunteer fire department. Nearly every hand in the room shot up/STORY, MORE PHOTOS, A7 Oneonta Tennis Club, van der Sommen joined Common ‘On Your Mark, Get Set...’

Council on Jan. 1, 2016.

LEST THEY FORGET:

Catskill Area Hospice’s annual “Camp Forget-MeNot” for children and teens who have lost a loved one is Saturday-Sunday, April 29-30, in Delhi. Call Camp Director Rod Roberts (4325525) to register by April 21.

‘Go!’ D&H Plans To Accelerate

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ow, things are going to start to happen.

The Friday, April 7, closing by Oneonta Rail Yards HONORING INCLUSION: Corp. (ORY) on 88 acres in the former D&H yards alTemple Beth El of Oneonta lows City Hall and Otsego Now – after 15 is planning an interfaith community gathering, “With months of delay – to press ahead on development plans there and citywide.

Malice Toward None: Hon“The ball is rolling,” said Mayor Gary oring America’s Legacy of Herzig.

“And it’s perfect timing.”

Religious Inclusion,” at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 22, at the synagoge at 83 Chestnut St. DINNER AND MYSTERY:

A mystery diner will portray Mrs. Matthew Adams, the wife of an 1890s Oneonta hotel owner at the GOHS’ annual dinner 6-8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 26, at Toscana’s.

ORY is a subsidiary of Otsego Now, the county’s IDA. The seller was Oneonta River Corp., a partnership that includes Wayne Treffeisen of A. Treffeisen & Sons LLC, which is headquartered in the yards. The price was $250,000, or $2,800 an acre.

Here’s what will happen next: • One, the city’s Comprehensive Master Plan will be updated.

Free-Tuition Excites, Kleniewski Finding

SUNY President Peppered With Questions

By LIBBY CUDMORE

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ot a full 12 hours after Governor Cuomo announced the adoption of the Excelsior Award, which gives students free tuition at Please See CLOSING, A6 SUNY, CUNY and

community colleges, SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski was already fielding questions from students.

“I was at a student event, and one girl asked me ‘How do I apply’?” said Kleniewski. “There’s a

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Please See TUITION, A6

To Bill Dornburgh, Focus Failure No Surprise

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Dornburgh made a prediction. “I said they’d be insolvent in three-tofive years.”

He was one year off.

Two years after Focus Ventures purchased the Otsego Manor, Focus CEO Joseph Zupnik announced Wednesday, April 6, that it was

selling the nursing home and rehab center to Centers Health Care, the largest post-acute care center in the Northeast.

“It has become increasingly difficult for operators of just one or two nursing facilities to compete economically in the current health

care environment,” Zupnik said in a statement. “In Centers Health Care, we have found a solution with the resources and expertise to help us more effectively guide these two great properties and eventually take them to next level.”

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U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-19th, center right, reassured health providers and community leaders during a visit to the Oneonta Community Health Center on lower Main Street Saturday, April 8, according to county Rep. Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta, one of the attendees. In particular, the group was heartened by Faso’s expression of support for two key Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions, she said: Keeping young people on their parents’ health insurance until age 26, and not allowing insurers to deny benefits to applicants with pre-existing conditions. Attendees included, from left, Otsego County Chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan, Dr. Carolyn Wolf-Gould, Stuligross, Dr. Ben Friedell, Dr. Chris Wolf-Gould, Faso, Clinic Coordinator Barbara Sperling and staff member Arlana Young.

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FOCUS/From A1 With rebranding efforts and approval from the Department of Health, the earliest the facility could be open as a Centers Health Care operation is October, according to Thomas McCartin, Centers’ director of marketing.

The sale comes at the end of a difficult year for Focus.

Last August, four Focus employees were arrested and eventually pleaded guilty to neglecting a 94-year-old resident for 41 hours over Memorial Day weekend.

In January, additional allegations of abuse, neglect and compliance violations came to light, and the facility was labeled as a “Special Focus Facility” by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. It was also fined $18,000 by the state Department of Health.

“They had struggles getting staff,” said county Rep. Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta, who, alongside Dornburgh, served on the committee to oversee The Manor’s sale.

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The county-owned Otsego Manor was privatized two years ago, and now is being sold again.

“After the incident last summer, it just made it too hard for them to carry on.”

In 2014, Focus purchased Otsego Manor for $18.5 million. “That was a high price to pay for a nursing home,” said Dornburgh.

“For taxpayers, it was a good deal, but not for the residents or employees.”

But because of Centers’ size, said Stuligross, employees will have better pay and benefits. “Mr. Zupnik telephoned me about the decision and said that Centers can give benefits to staff, including a 401K and increased wages,” she said. “That should improve morale.”

Both Centers Health Care and Focus have assured residents and staff that all employees at the two sites will remain in place, while Centers’ staff members will continue to work on-site as consultants to management in all areas of the operation.

Centers operates 33 skilled nursing and rehab facilities spanning New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island, two Assisted Living programs, seven Adult Day Health Care facilities, several home care companies, and Centers Plan for Healthy Living, a Managed Long Term Care company.

Focus owned one other nursing home, in Utica, which was also included in the sale to Centers.

“I looked into the Center

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for Medicare and Medicaid Services ratings for 16 of their facilities,” said Dornburgh. “Of those, five of them had five-star ratings, the others were four-star.

They have a very good track record. I think it will be an improvement.”

Focus had come in with a plan to develop and open an assisted living center, but Centers has not clarified whether or not they continue to go forward with this plan.

“After the sale is complete, we’ll look into it,” said McCartin.

“Our consulting agreement begins immediately” said Centers CEO Kenny Rozenberg. “We expect to receive Department of Health approval in the near future, which will lead to a full transition of ownership and these two facilities can then become full members of the Centers Health Care family.”

And despite the troubles, Stuligross still holds firm that Focus was the right choice at the time. “I don’t think we made a mistake,” she said. “Mr. Dornburgh was concerned that they weren’t a big enough business, and that’s the truth.

But at the time, we weren’t anticipating it as such. The turning point was last summer.”

“It’s unfortunate that it happened,” she said. “But we’re going to look forward to better days.”

Maundy Thursday, April 13 7:30 pm, Holy Communion with Washing of Feet, Church

Good Friday, April 14

3 pm, The Solemn Liturgy, Church 5:30 pm, The Stations of the Cross, 7:30 pm, Ecumenical Good Friday Service at United Methodist Church of Cooperstown

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hen Gerald Benjamin was chairman of the Ulster County Board of Representatives, he learned – to his dismay – a lesson. He tried to remove a county highway superintendent, but his fellow representatives balked, and blocked his decision.

The lesson? While a county board elects its chairman to achieve organizational and procedural efficiencies, the chair actually has no more clout than any other representative. “Most of the authority resides in the majority,” said Benjamin, who is also a SUNY New Paltz vice president and former director of the college’s Center for Local Government.

NYSAC’s handbook, “County Government Organization in New York State,” concurs: “Under county law, the chair remains a member of the board of supervisors” – or representatives – “with the same powers and responsibilities as all other members of the board.”

The board can delegate “certain of its powers” to the chair, which means it can take them back.

Hold that thought.

• One of Cooperstown’s county reps, David Bliss, was Town of Middlefield supervisor for

two dozen years before joining the county Board of Representatives’ freshman class on Jan. 1, 2016.

He’s shown particular interest in an initiative that’s percolating right now: the creation of a county Board of Ethics.

As it happens, the Town of Middlefield had such a board during Bliss’ tenure. It didn’t meet regularly. In fact, Bliss can only remember it being convened once or twice over two decades.

Still, its very existence was a reassurance to Middlefield citizens. If mischief surfaced,

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ith Democrat Zephyr Teachout’s announcement she won’t challenge Congressman John Faso, R-19th, next year, names of people who might are starting to emerge.

One local politico asked the other day, “Why not Dan Crowell?” Brainy, charismatic, he has already announced he won’t run for county treasurer again. Can there be an ulterior motive?

While Teachout and the previous Democrat, Sean Eldridge, both were labelled carpetbaggers, Crowell is born and bred in Otsego County.

Crowell Broad-gauged, he attended the London School of Economics on a Fulbright and did post-graduate research in the Third World. And he’s a captain in the Army Reserves. Nice credentials.

It’s too early to judge Faso, but certainly he took office at a tumultuous time, so he could be vulnerable. If so, Dan Crowell would be an intriguing entry.

there was an independent entity for citizens to turn to.

As it further happens, the county board went through an extensive process in 1990 to create a Board of Ethics – public hearings, legal ads, and so on. Carol McGovern, clerk of the board, has a thick file on the process dating back 27 years.

Once created, though, the Board of Ethics was never populated. Today, it is still just a shell.

To her credit, county board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, has mentioned activating the Board of Ethics at the last couple of meetings. At the April meeting on the 5th, she Please See EDITORIAL, A5

NEWS ANALYSIS

Free Tuition Buoys, ‘Dispirits’ New York’s Higher-Education Community Editor’s Note: As host to public SUNY Oneonta and private Hartwick College, Otsego County has a vested interest in Governor Cuomo’s plan, adopted by the state Legislature Saturday, April 8, to provide free tuition in public colleges to students from families with incomes under $125,000, and $3,000 scholarships for such students who opt for private college. This is an excerpt of a news analysis on www.insidehighereducation.com

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Otsego County hosts private Hartwick College, left, and public SUNY Oneonta,

“This is going to change the college-going culture,” she said, “by taking tuition off the table.”

Nancy Zimpher, SUNY chancellor, said she too expects the greatest impact at community colleges, which the vast majority of students attend without room and board costs. But she said that New York State had also changed the free-tuition discussion by including four-year public institutions.

“We may be on the precipice” of a new era, of promoting the idea that many more people need a four-year education than have earned bachelor’s degrees in the past, and this would be a historic shift, she said.

s college leaders studied the legislative language, reactions split between public and private institu-

tions.

Gail Mellow, president of CUNY’s LaGuardia Community College, said she thought the new policy was “extraordinary” and would lead to dramatic shifts in college attendance in the state. She said too many in New York and elsewhere “have blown through their aid attending for-profit schools and leaving without skills.” The free-tuition model will “change the discussion” in the state and attract many more students to community college, she believes.

Zimpher also noted that the bill includes requirements that students enroll full time and maintain minimum grade point averages. This will “move the completion dial,” she said.

But for Mary Beth Labate, president of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York, the news was “dispiriting.”

“There is a clear divide in the way students will be treated, depending on whether they go to a public or private institution,” she said, adding that the Cuomo plan is poor public policy, given the excellent outcomes for those who attend private colleges.

As to the new funds for private college students, Labate said she wasn’t sure that many institutions would find the program viable. She said the requirement that colleges freeze tuition for students when they first receive the aid would appear to mean colleges would end up with different tuition rates for students in different classes, and would have to track the students.

“This would be bureaucratically difficult,” she said. “Colleges would have to ask if it was worth it.”

As news of the budget deal spread, one provision drew criticism from advocates for free public higher education. That is the provision that would require recipients to work or live in the state after graduation for the same number of years that they receive support (which presumably would be up to four years, given the requirements that students enroll full time).

Sara Goldrick-Rab, one such advocate and a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University, posted a series of highly critical tweets on the provision, calling it “extortion,” “bad public policy” and a “trick.”

LETTERS

‘Quiet Conservative’ Voice Of ALL To the Editor:

As the rhetoric escalates about John Faso’s “manifest cowardice” (to quote one writer) in not relishing holding a town-hall-type meeting knowing the audience it will draw, it should be obvious that the issue is not policy, but ideology and tactics.

Faso already knows, via the mainstream media, press and network, how the audience is going to act and respond. The audience will

be the same letter-writing, progressive, leftist activists, sit-in, sign-carrying demonstrators we see regardless if the issue is political, social, judicial, energy policy, environmental policy, etc., etc.

Faso represents ALL of the people and the numbers don’t lie: The quiet conservative won, not the vocally loud, intentionally visible demonstrators.

On April Fool’s Day, Easter Eggs Came Home To Roost To the Editor:

Jerri and I stopped at my brother Butch’s house to take a look at Mary’s new baby chicks. The chicks were about two weeks old and as cute as baby chicks can get.

Mary told us that she’d just finished a course from Cornell University in rearing chickens and was excited to put her DAVE PARKER new knowledge to work. far so good, we left.

Worcester SoWe realized the next day was April Fool’s Day and that started the ball rolling. We went down

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eggs, examined the eggs and was still perplexed.

After giving up on her own to figure out what was going on she called her teacher at Cornell. She explained to her what she had found and asked her what she thought? The teacher laughed and said, “you made my day.”

The problem with Mary getting a straight answer was the teacher thought Mary was playing an April Fool’s Day joke on her. It was only later when Mary dissected one of the eggs she realized it was candy.

April Fool!

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to the store and saw little candy Easter eggs. The eggs had silver sparkles and were adorable, well, as much as eggs can be. We looked at each other and both said, “perfect.”

The next morning, I quietly snuck into their home, made my way to the chicks’ cage and deposited the candy eggs. Made it out without a sound!

When Mary discovered the eggs with the chicks she was totally perplexed.

Couldn’t figure it out. She had never heard of such a thing. She prodded the

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Hark, Hark, The Hummingbird!

e note that the Woodside Hall’s “The Gathering Place” will feature a talk by Patricia Szarpa entitled “Sweet Spring!

Welcoming back the Baltimore Oriole and Ruby Throated Hummingbird.”

The event will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 18.

As was pointed out, “Seeing these two colorful visitors are sure signs of warm weather. This talk is timely for these two birds in particular. Spring is sweet for them because they are big sweet eaters!

Pat will talk about being ready with habitat, feeders, water, food, tips on how to identify, etc. She will also

touch on general migratory facts and other bird species coming in.”

Following the presentation refreshments will be served. For more information conCATHERINE tact Karen CadLAKE walader, LCSW at ELLSWORTH 547-0600.

• Since last week’s column, we have learned, from Village Trustee Cindy Falk, that we “...should know that the reason that ‘upper’ Pioneer Street work

is not listed in the 2017-18 budget is because we are planning to use streets money from the 2016-17 budget (our current budget) to fund it.

We anticipate the work will be done in early June...” And while we were delighted to hear this, we were somewhat puzzled about exactly how this came to be.

It was explained to us as follows: “The 2016-17 streets permanent improvement budget included: • Chestnut Street (completed) • Glen Avenue (completed) • Grove Street (delayed to 2017-18) Please See COLUMN, A5

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150 Years Ago

Educate yourself – Learn but one simple fact in science or the arts each day, and then count each day’s gain by weeks and years and you will store up an amount of useful knowledge that will surprise you, not only by its amount, but at the ease with which you will attain it all. Books, periodicals and papers are cheap and easy to be obtained. It is your own application that must lay hold of this knowledge that is so freely presented to you. Appropriate it and apply it to your own use.

The new Medical College for Women which held its fourth commencement last Friday graduated nine ladies as doctors. Professor Willis, in his remarks, said that there are 300 female medical practitioners in this country, some of whom were in possession of practices worth from $10,000 to $20,000 a year. This is a practical step toward solving the woman problem in medicine.

April 1867

100 Years Ago

One hundred and twelve persons, most of them women and girls, are known to have lost their lives and another 121 injured by a series of terrific explosions today in the shrapnel building of the Eddystone Ammunition Corporation at Eddystone, one mile from Chester, Pennsylvania.

Many of the injured were mortally hurt and it is feared the final death list will reach 150, while others will probably be maimed for life. How any of the more than 300 employees in the building, in which was stored 30,000 shells, escaped is almost beyond conception as there was scarcely a fragment of the structure left intact. Fire added to the horror and most of the bodies were so badly charred that identification was impossible. Investigations of the cause of the explosion point to a quantity of shrapnel placed near a radiator. The opinion is that the explosion was purely accidental and not the result of a plot that was earlier rumored. The force of the explosion was felt in Philadelphia 15 miles distant.

April 1917

80 Years Ago

Devotion, no less heroism, is a characteristic of Teddy, the German police dog that rescued Douard Poglici of 14 Susquehanna Street from drowning in the Susquehanna River in February 1934. The dog belongs to Poglici’s brother-in-law, Joseph Giglio of the same address. Poglici, aged 14, spent a good share of the 1937 Easter vacation at the Y.M.C.A. where he left his coat on the floor in the boys’ game room. Finding the coat without the boy, Teddy stood

Pesky Potholes, Part II COLUMN/From A4 • Pioneer Street (scheduled to be done in June 2017) “Both Grove and Pioneer were planned to be done with an oil and stone technique that as (DPW Superintendent) Brian (Clancy) described we found problematic after the budget was developed. The replacement technique is more expensive, but it results in a much better finished product (like the newest section of Chestnut St., completed last fall). We did not have the money to do both Pioneer and Grove that way, and we were hesitant to overspend in the early fall ... before knowing what the winter would be like and how much snow removal and street repairs there would be as a result of the weather. So Brian was correct when you talked to him – we needed to use a more expensive technique and there was not enough money in the budget to allow that.

“As we moved forward with 2017-18 budgeting, we were able to put the Grove Street work in that budget, leaving money in 2016-17 that could be applied to Pioneer. In the end, we plan that upper Pioneer, Elm, Grove, and the firehouse apron will all be done in June, using money from two different budget years.”

She also added, for those on the other end of Pioneer Street, “We anticipate that a major lower Pioneer project will begin fall 2017 or spring 2018 during this budget cycle as a longawaited capital project.”

We thank Cindy for clearing this all up for us and look forward to traveling the street in a less bone jarring fashion in the not too distant future.

• In closing, we wish to share a tidbit we discovered in our “Where Nature Smiles” column which appeared in The Freeman’s Journal of June 19, 1991. We had to chuckle when we came across it, thinking it really explained the community in 1991.

“Last spring on a beautifully bright clear May Saturday, we were wandering about the village with a group of visitors from The Otesaga.

Every time we stopped that day, some local would drive by and yell, ‘Don’t believe a word he says,’ or ‘He doesn’t know what he’s talking about,’ or ‘Watch what he tells you.’ Finally one of the visitors turned to her friend and said, ‘It’s a small town so they all know each other.’

Some months later, we related this to Dot Rousselot of Susquehanna Avenue who replied, ‘Yes, but what they don’t know is how well we know each other.’”

PLEASE NOTE: Comments regarding this column may be made by mail to 105 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326, by telephone at 607-547-8124 or by e-mail at cellsworth1@ stny.rr.com. Or, for more thoughts about the comings and goings of Cooperstown, visit the website, cooperstowntoday.com.

125 Years Ago

grown into one of the retailing giants of the 20th century with more than 2,000 stores in the United States, Puerto Rico and Europe. In 1976, the firm opened 75 new stores and $8.3 billion worth of business. In 1902, James Cash Penney opened a “cash-and-carry” store in a small frame building in Kemmerer, a coal mining town. He invested his entire savings of $500 plus $1,500 he borrowed to buy a one-third interest in the 25 by 40 foot store. Mr. Penney called his store “The Golden Rule,” and his idea was to apply the Golden Rule philosophy to business. He determined to sell merchandise at prices as low as possible and introduced the novel idea of one price to all with no haggling.

Many sales at small prices, he reasoned, were better than a few sales at large profits.

April 1977

20 Years Ago

April 1892 guard over it for three days, refusing food and grasping the garment in his paws when anyone tried to pick it up.

The coat was finally taken home yesterday, after which Teddy accepted a good-sized piece of meat from Y.M.C.A. Secretary W.W. Hughes, and then disappeared. Teddy was awarded a medal and a diploma of honor for pulling the lad out of the river three years ago.

April 1937

60 Years Ago

The head of a Congressional Sub-Committee investigating Communist influence in music said today that the Metropolitan Music School in New York City was “controlled by persons identified as members of the Communist Party.” Congressman Morgan M. Moulder (D-MO) said: “Un-contradicted witnesses, under oath, have identified the principal officials of this organization and many of the faculty as persons known to have been Communists. These several identifications have not been denied by the parties concerned when they were interrogated during the hearings.” Moulder also said that “numerous exhibits confirm the Communist connections of these people and the school which they operate.”

April 1957

40 Years Ago

As America begins its third century, the J.C. Penney Company will celebrate 75 years of service to the American consumer. Founded as a small dry goods store in the western frontier town of Kemmerer, Wyoming, the company has

The cavernous space in the former Pyramid Mall is undergoing change. The new FoxCare Center, still being renovated for outpatient care by A.O. Fox Hospital, was shown to 20 community members Friday morning. Hospital president John Remillard unveiled a new logo of concentric blue and white circles and explained reasons for developing the space. Primary among them are changes sweeping through the health care industry. “All the insurances and the whole industry is discouraging care in expensive inpatient settings,” he said. The project will pull diverse Fox services together under one roof and provide easy access to the single level of offices. The new outpatient center will include a cyber café, an eatery with internet availability; Oneonta Family Practice; Fox Internal Medicine/Oncology offices; a Community Education and Wellness unit; a new Women’s Health Center; Catskill Neurosciences Associates and more.

April 1997

10 Years Ago

Campaigning in New Hampshire, Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton assailed “a culture of cronyism in government as she vowed to streamline the federal bureaucracy and improve accountability. Clinton called for slashing 500,000 government contractors, potentially saving up to $18 billion a year, and promised to cut back on no-bid contracts. “It’s time again for a president who can earn your respect and trust one day at a time,” Clinton said. Clinton’s speech sought to emphasize her knowledge of government and highlight the differences between her resume and that of rival Barack Obama, a freshman senator from Illinois.

April, 2007

EDITORIAL

Maybe Bliss, Experienced In Ethics Boards, Should Lead EDITORIAL/From A4 told her colleagues that, if they have any suggested nominees, they should pass them along.

• After the meeting on the 5th, four county reps met informally to open two boxes of personnel files provided under subpoena by county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. as part of an investigation into an incident involving his son, Sgt. Ros Devlin, and jail operations in general.

One of the four was Kathy Clark, who has yet to clarify whether her husband, retired state trooper Bob Fernandez, intends to challenge Devlin in next year’s sheriff election. (County Democratic chair Richard Abbate has confirmed that, in recent months, two Democrats have sounded

him out on whether the county committee would cross-endorse Fernandez against Devlin in a 2018 Republican primary.)

If he’s not going to run, Clark should, one, say so, and settle the matter. If he is going Dave Bliss to run, then, two, Clark should not be sitting at the table of the Devlin investigation.

• To complete the loop.

If the chairman does not clarify her husband’s intentions and continues to participate in the investigation, it’s likely this case would be one of the first considered

by a newly created Board of Ethics.

Therefore, she should not be appointing (even with the advice and consent of the full board) the members to a Board of Ethics.

As Gerry Benjamin’s colleagues did in the case of the highway superintendent, the reps should designate, say, three of their colleagues as an ad hoc committee – maybe with the experienced Dave Bliss as chair – to seek out and nominate three fair-minded, independent citizens (two of the majority party; one from the minority party, according to state law) to the inaugural Board of Ethics.

If, after all these 27 years, the county board is finally ready to act, it should not create a Board of Ethics under an ethical cloud.

LETTERS

We Americans Bomb Others, But Unable To See Our Moral Failings To the Editor,

Once again, our mainstream media has ignored important issues in the debate about Bashar Assad’s alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria.

The media has a track record of excoriating America’s enemies for their human rights violations, while looking the other way regarding America’s own crimes against humanity. These are largely invisible to the American public, thanks to media outlets that hide the truth from the populace when it serves the interests of the powerful elements of our society, the military-industrial complex and the huge multinational corporations and financial institutions which pull the strings of government and offer a revolving door policy that makes many politicians rich.

As a result, these unscrupulous politicians put corporations, banks, and arms manufacturers first instead of human rights and the American people.

We have seen a great deal of outrage expressed by the media and the President regarding the children allegedly killed by Assad in Syria. Where was the outrage when Trump killed

nine children in Yemen on Jan. 29?

Where was the outrage when Obama killed women and children repeatedly with his drone murder machines and endless bombing campaigns?

How much reporting was there of the recent slaughter of scores of civilians by the U.S. in Mosul, Iraq, when an apartment complex was bombed by US forces on March 17?

As usual, the allegations against enemies are given top billing, while the stories about American wrongdoing are minimized, and reported only on the back pages, if they are reported at all.

There is a stinking hypocrisy about American condemnation of Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons. Where was the indignation when the U.S. engaged in chemical warfare in Iraq, including the use of depleted uranium weapons, which have caused a huge increase in cancer and birth defects, white phosphorus weapons that burn holes through people right to their bones, and napalm?

The bombing of Syria within days of the alleged chemical weapons attack is illegal under international law, and unconstitutional under Please See HAMMOND/A6

Empty Bowls Luncheon: Record Turnout, Bowls To the Editor:

On April 1, an outstanding number of community members turned out to support the 11th annual Empty Bowls Luncheon. We appreciate the generous support of our corporate sponsors, NYCM Insurance and Bieritz Insurance.

We served a record 330 guests and generated $7,500 of proceeds for the Cooperstown Food Pantry. None of this would be possible without a small army of volunteers.

Thank you to the Smithy Clay Studio and 30 of its potters for creating 340 soup bowls, in addition to donating many beautiful raffle items.

More than 30 individuals and restaurants provided the delicious soups and breads. 40 volunteers ensured that the event ran smoothly.

Christ Episcopal Church again welcomed the event with open arms.

We are especially grateful to the Rev. Dane Boston, Mike and Laura Page and Laurie Kearns.

Our deepest thanks to all who helped make this event such a tremendous success, including Alex’s Bistro, Bocca Osteria, Cooperstown Pottery Mom, Council Rock Brewery, Danny’s Market, Doubleday Cafe, Karen Katz Studio, L.M. Townsend Catering, Mel’s at 22, Mohican Flowers, Nicoletta’s Cafe, Origins Cafe, Stagecoach Coffee, Starfield Designs, The Otesaga Hotel and the Cooperstown Leo Club.

Together, selfless individuals are supporting one of the most important services in Northern Otsego County. We look forward to a day when there are no more “empty bowls”

KATHY CHASE Empty Bowls organizer

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Now, Plans For D&H Yards Fast-Tracked

With Free Tuition, SUNY Oneonta Should Expect Enrollment Rise, Kleniewski Says TUITION/From A1 lot of interest, especially from parents.”

On Monday, April 10, Cuomo and state legislators announced a deal to give students from families making under $100,000 a year up to $5,500 a year in tuition, effectively making college tuition free for students in lower- and middleclass families.

That threshold will increase over the next three years, up to $125,000 by 2020.

“No other state is doing this,” said Kleniewski. “I wouldn’t have even thought it was possible, but the more we can do to increase access to higher education, the better.”

As many as 940,000 families across the state will be eligible for free tuition this fall. “They’re already anticipating between 3 to 5 percent of an increase in enrollment,” she said. “This will not only help more kids go to college, but help get them out on time.”

Nationwide, Kleniewski said, the median age for college students is 26, and many take more than four years to graduate. “Especially with students from lower-income families, they’re working and going to school part time or they have to drop out to take care of family members.”

Though that isn’t the trend at SUNY Oneonta, Kleniewski does acknowledge the diversity of family income at the school. “We’re encouraging all students to apply for the Excelsior program,” she said. “It can really help students decrease their loans.”

SUNY students will still be responsible for room and board, fees, books, transportation and other personal expenses, which Kleniewski says adds up to around $21,000 a year for students who don’t live at home.

Students can still apply for FAFSA, Pell and other financial aid to cover the remaining costs of college.

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U.S. Shortcoming Overlooked HAMMOND/From A5 American law. It also destroyed evidence necessary to determine who was at fault and to bring them to justice.

We have seen over and over again that LETTER the U.S. government seizes on false allegations against its enemies to advance its military agenda of subjugation and conquest. It happened in Vietnam with the lies about the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and in Iraq with the false claims about “weapons of mass destruction.” Yet the American people believe the lies of the devious intelligence agencies over and over again, as if they are incapable of learning anything from history.

In America today, we have an executive branch that drops bombs at will with no approval from Congress and no public debate. Democracy is dying a tortured death in the United States of America. We now have laws that allow the President to ‘disappear’ American citizens with no judicial process. These are the sorts of policies implemented by dictatorships, not democracies.

These policies are antiAmerican, and should be questioned and challenged by all patriotic Americans.

What ever happened to the idea that freedom and liberty are worth fighting for?

Americans today complacently nod their heads in assent at every assault on their civil liberties, at the massive

and intrusive spying on innocent Americans by the peeping Toms at the NSA and CIA, and at every illegal war waged by the executive branch without congressional approval. If this continues, there will soon be no trace of freedom left in this country. Instead of being the land of the free and the home of the brave, we will be the land of the slaves, and the home of the sheep.

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all the other aid students receive.”

But to help offset these costs, $8 million has been earmarked for promoting and distributing free education materials, including digital textbooks, in order to minimize textbook costs to students.

And students at private colleges are eligible to receive as much as $3,000 through the program, with the college matching the grant and freeze tuition for the duration of the grant.

Hartwick College President Margaret Drugovich could not be reached for comment in time for this edition.

There are some conditions of the program, including that students must remain and work in New York for the same number of years they receive the Excelsior award, or else the funds become loans. This may be deferred for graduate school or because of “extreme hardship.”

“One of the things New York really needs is intellectual capital,” said Kleniewski. “We don’t want to see our students graduate and move away. Governor Cuomo is harvesting a workforce, so people can invest in where they were educated.”

Though SUNY has already accepted most of their students for the fall, Kleniewski anticipates that in the next year, they’ll see an increase in student enrollment. “We’re going to help a lot more people go to college,” she said. “This is going to be really good for our students.”

CLOSING/From A1 Shortly, Herzig said, he will appoint a committee to explore community sentiment and use it to guide plans for the D&H site and the state’s $14 million Downtown Redevelopment Initiative (DRI). Lisa Nagle of Elan Planning, Saratoga Springs, which is completing updated comp plans in Cooperstown and Richfield Springs, will now do the same in Oneonta.

• Two, a detailed housing study.

The state will appoint a consultant to gauge housing needs in Oneonta, Cooperstown, Richfield Springs and countywide, to show KCG Development of Indianapolis, the private developer of downtown housing, and the public if city center apartments called for in the DRI plan are needed.

• Three, SEQRA. Nagle and Delaware Engineering’s Mary Beth Bianconi will begin the process to ensure the D&H site meets all requirements of the state Environmental Quality Review Act and other regulations – in short, to make it “shovel ready.”

After more than a year of negotiations, last Friday’s closing, in Otsego Now’s headquarters on the fifth floor of 189 Main, was a low-key affair. Its COO, Elizabeth Horvath, represented Otsego Now, along with attorney Chris Martell of Hodgson Russ, its law firm.

Cooperstown attorney Bob Birch represented the title company. And Treffeisen appeared on behalf of Oneonta River Corp., represented by attorney George Silvernail.

The 250 acres is most of the property that parallels Chestnut Street to the south between Cliff Street, past Fonda Avenue to Lutz Feed Co. at Ceperly Avenue. Two 1.5-acre lots were broken out of the package, said Horvath.

In an interview, Otsego Now CEO Sandy Mathes, who recognized the opportunity in the D&H yards on arriving in the county three years ago, said, “Serious conversations with developers can now begin.”

“Site control is absolutely a requirement,” he continued. “At each step of the approval process, the value of the property increases.

You want to make sure you control the property value before its value starts to increase.”

The negotiation with Oneonta River Corp. was complicated by “12 old mortgages” that had to be

sorted out. “We now have a clean title,” he said.

The three steps now necessary to prepare for development will take about a year and cost $800,000, Mathes estimated, adding that $330,000 in state funds have already been obtained to help with the cost.

A “30-percent design” – necessary to submit an application for federal funding – is complete on a proposed bridge to provide easy access from the yards to I-88 through the River Street Extension, Mathes said.

The Trump Administration has “zeroed out” the programs Otsego Now was looking toward to cover the estimated $18 million bridge cost, Mathes said, but – with the president’s emphasis on infrastructure – he anticipates new programs will be surfacing soon.

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Oneonta Townsfolk: We Want Professional Firefighters

“We asked and asked and asked, but the City could never prove what the $1.2 million (price tag) was for. This can be done for $450,000,� says Johnna Peachin, seated next to Don LaManna. Both are town fire commissioners.

Virginia Lee, accountant for the City of Oneonta, had strong words for the commission: “You are members of the community, but you are elected officials. Do you job!�

By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal

Mary Breneguer and husband Dick wanted to know what percent of their taxes went to the city’s Oneonta Fire Department and demanded that the differences between the city and town over fire protection be resolved.

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ore than 160 people who filled the Elm Park Methodist Church sanctuary delivered a message to the Town of Oneonta Board of Fire Commissioners: Keep our paid fire protection. “Show of hands, how many of you are against starting a volunteer fire department?� asked Ellen Blaisdell at the end of the Tuesday, April 11, public hearing.

Nearly every hand in the room shot up.

The fire commissioners – chairman Mike Butler, Johna Peachin, Don Lamanna and Gene Molinari, with Fred Volpe absent – were required to hold the hearing before spurning professional firefighting from the City of Oneonta. “This is legally mandated in order to create the legal entity to explore creating a volunteer fire department,� said Butler. “Our negotiations with the city have consisted of a series of meetings where they told us $1.2 million, take it or leave it.

The city has a monopoly.�

But the town residents weren’t having it. “The

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Oneonta Fire Department is worth their weight in gold,� said Annemarie Hosnedl. “You get what you pay for, and the city has not been unreasonable.

It doesn’t make any sense to fire the fire department when they’re doing their job.� “In the town survey, 85 percent of people said they were happy with their fire service,� said Town Board member Pat Jacobs. “There is no substitute for professional training. I am not willing to put my family or my property at risk.� “In 1992, I lost my house in the Town of Maryland to a fire,� said Dorothy Scott Fielder. “I’m aware of the value of a good fire department.

I’m aware of the difficulties volunteer fire departments have getting adequate coverage. It seems foolish to me, when you have a paid fire department, to give it up and go for a volunteer.�

Others called for the commissioners to resign. “You are elected officials and your responsibility is to represent our wishes,� said Virginia Lee, a town resident and the city accountant. “Do you think you have the negotiating skills needed to represent the people? I don’t. Therefore, I think you should resign and the dissolve the commission to turn over to the town board.� “There was a fire at my house, and the city responded and saved my house,� said Lisa Barr. “If you move ahead with this against the will of the people, I’m in agreement with Andrew Stammel. We could dissolve the district.� (County Representative Stammel, DTown of Oneonta, made that argument in a letter to Hometown Oneonta.)

Another concern expressed was that there would be hidden costs. “My brother is the chief of a volunteer fire department, and I asked him the cost of the trucks,� said Art Gales. “A pumper truck costs half a million dollars, and you would need two of them. An aerial truck is a million dollars, and we’ll need to train the crew and build a fire house. That’s several million right there, and it falls on us.� “We’d be in for a lot of money,� said Molly Swain. “It makes a lot more sense to use the equipment the city already has.�

But many residents did encourage continued negotiation. “I hope the town and the city can sit down with cool heads and work together,� said Randy Budine. “This should be simple if everybody wants to do it.� “We should be merging and sharing services,� said Luisa Montanti, Southside Mall manager. “It behooves us all to sit at the table. Do the right thing.� “If we don’t have a healthy city, we don’t have a healthy

town,� said Barr. “And who would want to live here? We’re one community.� “The city has given you three options,� said Michelle Catan. “You’re not negotiating. I think you should. You are elected to do what the residents would like and I think the consensus is clear.�

Both Town Supervisor Bob Wood and Dave Rowley, the retired school superintendent, offered their services as negotiators to sit down with the city.

After the public hearing was closed, the commission voted yes to creating the corporation in order to keep exploring options.

Peachin said that the commissioners were also looking into hybrid departments, which are made up of both volunteer and paid firefighters. There will

be insurance workshops for homeowners, as well as volunteer recruitment workshops.

If they decide to go through with the volunteer fire department, the intent is to start work as early as June. “The fire academy starts in September,� she said. “We need a back-up plan,� said Butler.

But they do plan to meet with the city. “We have a direction the people want to go, and that’s to negotiate with the city,� said Butler. “We have always been open to negotiation,� said Mayor Gary Herzig at the conclusion of the meeting. “But when we’re told they want to start by cutting the number in half, I don’t think that’s reasonable.

But that doesn’t mean we’re unwilling to meet.�

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MLS#109683 $295,000 19+ acre lot w/views up and down the valley. Radiant heat, cathedral ceiling, spacious open great room, basement ready to be finished. Pole barn, small cabin.

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MLS#107981 $275,000 Secluded Log Cabin 11 acres, 3 BRs, 2 baths, renovated kitchen w/new SS appliances, granite counters, 3-car garage w/full basement, woodstove.

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MLS#108097 $120,000 Beautiful Views! Home boasts a large, bright family room, newer furnace and hot water heater, generator, large garage, deck, covered front porch.

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MLS#108994 $30,900 5+ Acres of Beautiful Land in Butternuts. Perfect building lot surrounded by nature but still close to one of the region’s most historic villages.

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Check out the “railbed to nowhere” across Route 20 from the Springfield Center Car Wash. Top photo, Italian immigrant workers in Sunday best at C&MV headquarters, Pierstown Road.

‘Millionaires’ Lawsuit’ Halted C&MV

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Railroad historian Jim Loudon examines “Otsego’s Forgotten Railroad,” hot off the presses, during an interview at Oneonta’s Latte Lounge.

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hen Oneonta’s Jim Loudon, the railroad historian, was a salesman for E.C. Crooks, the monument maker, in the early 1980s, he would often find himself driving east along Route 20.

A couple of hundred yards past Kelly’s Corners, where Routes 20 and 80 intersect at Springfield Center, he would recognize what appeared to be a railbed to nowhere. (For the past 40 years it’s been part of Terry Webster’s farm.)

“It really intrigued me,” Loudon remembers.

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School Nurse Shelly Havens’ poses by the stainedglass door to her Otego Elementary office.

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he stained-glass window in School Nurse Shelly Havens’ door – a caduceus entwining the word “Health” – says it all: They don’t make them like they used to.

That’s evident throughout the

Depression-era Otego Elementary School – it is due to close at the end of August – beginning with a frieze above the front door, two pupils contemplating the lamp of knowledge, to the high ceilings and woodwork, to “Girls” and “Boys” carved above the entryway to the former auditorium (now gym).

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piritual highlights of Easter Sunday commemorations include the revived ecumenical sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, April 16, in Cooperstown’s Lakefront Park, organized by Cooperstown Baptist Church’s new pastor, the Rev. Joseph Perdue.

Also, Community Bible Chapel of Toddsville is planning “Encounter the Cross” noon-5 p.m on Good Friday, April 14, a self-guided walk through seven rooms at the 577 Greenough Road church designed to dramatize Jesus’ final hours.

For Easter services at churches in Oneonta and Cooperstown, see A3.

FIND EASTER EGGS: On Holy Saturday, the 15th, Easter Egg hunts are planned at 10 a.m. sharp at Hyde Hall on Otsego Lake, at 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Bookhout Funeral Home, Oneonta, and noon at Pioneer Park, Cooperstown, and on Easter Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at Focus Otsego.

MORE EASTER FUN: The Easter Bunny will be available for pictures with the kids noon-4 p.m. Friday, April 14, and Saturday, April 15, at Southside Mall, Oneonta. And youngsters can take a train ride with the Easter Bunny and Elmo on the Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad Saturday, April 15 and Sunday April 16 departing at 1 p.m. from the Milford Depot.

SHAKESPEARE HERE: Set in a 1980s nightclub, Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” will be performed by Hartwick College students at 8 p.m.

April 11-15, with a 2 p.m. matinee Saturday the 15th at Yager Hall.

ART RECEPTION: “Off The Walls,” celebrating life of Lisa Rodewald, opens 5-7 p.m. Thursday, April 13, at Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main. Also, “The Fabric of Life,” textiles Dr. Chris Kjolhede collected during his travels.

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The theme is ‘Blue Skies Smilin’ at me: Exploring the beauty of living a life free from the negative impacts of addiction.’

Info, http://www.canoneonta. org/event/opening-receptionleaf-art-poetry-contest-2/?instance_id=752 HISTORY EXHIBIT – “Dressed to the Nines: Williams-Proctor Fashions” showcasing 19th century high society dress opens.

Continuing thru September 3.

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, 310 Genesee St., Utica.

Info, http://www.mwpai.org/ view/exhibitions/future-exhibition/williams-proctor-fashions/ GOOD FRIDAY WORSHIP – Noon. St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta.

Info, call (607) 432-1458 or visit http://stjamesoneonta.org/ GOOD FRIDAY – Noon-7 p.m.

Encounter the Cross. Experience Christ’s final hours through a self-guided tour and a time of meditation through seven rooms.

Community Bible Chapel, 577 Greenough Rd., Cooperstown.

Info, http://www.communitybiblechapel.com/ EASTER BUNNY PHOTOS – Noon-4 p.m. Fun for the whole family. Children 10 and under take photos with the Easter bunny, $8. Please bring non-perishable food donations to Help Stomp Out Hunger. Southside Mall, Oneonta. Info, https://www. facebook.com/southsidemall/

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GOOD FRIDAY – 3 p.m. The Solemn Liturgy. Christ Church Episcopal, 46 River St., Cooperstown. Info, call (607)547-9555 or visit https:// www.facebook.com/christchurchcooperstown/ DISCUSSION – 3:30-5 p.m. Topics in Intersectional Feminism. Cooperstown Village Library. Info, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar GOOD FRIDAY – 4 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion and Death. St. Mary’s Church, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-3929 or visit http://www. stmarysoneonta.org/ HAM DINNER – 5:30 p.m.

Baked ham, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, veggies, coffee and dessert. Oneonta Women of the Moose Lodge, 119 West Broadway, Oneonta. Info, debdew78@yahoo.com or (607) 433-2357 GOOD FRIDAY – 5:30 p.m.

The Stations of the Cross. Christ Church Episcopal, 46 River St., Cooperstown. Info, call (607) 547-9555 or visit https://www.

perstown/ GOOD FRIDAY – 7 p.m. Night Prayer in the style of Taize. St. Mary’s Church, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-3929 or visit http://www.stmarysoneonta.org/ GOOD FRIDAY – 7:30 p.m.

Ecumenical Service. United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-9540, http://www.cooperstownumc.org/ GOOD FRIDAY – 7:30 p.m.

Ecumenical Good Friday service.

United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-9555 or visit http:// www.christchurchcooperstown. org/ GOOD FRIDAY – 7:30 p.m.

Ecumenical service. United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, call (607) 547-8401, https://www.facebook.com/CooperstownPres/ THEATER – 8 p.m. “Twelfth Night, or What You Will” by William Shakespeare. The classic story of mistaken identity and love is adapted by the Hartwick College Theater Arts Department to the setting of a 1980s night club. Admission, $5 students, $10 public. Slade Theater, Yager Hall, Hartwick College, Oneonta.

Info/reservations, (607)4314227 or email theatre@hartwicki. edu. Additional info, Alyssa Fox, foxa@hartwick.edu MUSIC – 9 p.m. Robert Sarazin Blake & The Letters celebrate their new album ‘Recitative.’

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Otego Opinion Divided On Saving A Treasure SCHOOL//From B1 structure as Romanesque Revival architectural style with varicolored brick and a terracotta tile roof. There are also Modern stylistic elements favored for public building projects during the 1930s.

The point is, almost everyone agrees it’s a lovely centerpiece for the village, and Dick Downey, the 20-year Unatego Central school board member, wants to keep it that way. Even before the school board voted Feb. 13, with one nay, to close it and combine elementary students in the largest Unadilla facility, Downey was looking ahead.

As early as last July, he was conferring with Tony Scalici, the veteran Cooperstown Central board

Pupils contemplate the lamp of knowledge above Otego Elementary’s front door.

L. Apartments, 68 units of senior-citizen housing in Johnson City.

In September, he toured Metro Interfaith Housing’s Lincoln Court in Binghamton, where elderly with somewhat “limited physical abilities” – and disabled but healthy tenants – can still live on their own with the help of communal breakfast and supper.

The Twin Oaks Personal Care Home in Summit, Pa. – Downey went there in October – takes it a step further to assisted living, where tenants are Unatego Central school board ambulatory, but there’s member Dick Downey, left, housekeeping, meals and Superintendent Dave and some care below Richards discuss resuses of the nursing-home level. school buildings across the And on South New region.

Berlin, Norwich and Gilbertsville. member who is also Otsego Downey is particularly Rural Housing executive interested in a redo of the director, on ways to keep the former Watkins Glens High heart of the community beatSchool into 55 low- and ing, even after the pupils go. moderate-income housing In an interview, Scalici for senior citizens – he plans said the Otego school’s locato visit on April 25 – and the tion on Main Street is “just role the Schuyler County IDA perfect.” He’s experienced played in crafting an RFP in single-use conversions: (request for proposals) that Rural Housing, for instance, enticed 16 offers. created Milford Commons, The IDA executive there, family housing, in the former Judy McKinney Cherry, was Milford Central High School. also praiseful of SEPP and But he’s also intrigued by Two by Four Construction of what Richard Saba and a not- Syracuse, which completed for-profit corporation have the project. The two entiaccomplished with the former ties are also spinning off the Cherry Valley High School, former auditorium and gym which now houses the post for public use; concerts and office, town and village ofsporting events are planned fices, a performance space there. and other uses.

As it happens, a Two by Redevelopment for private Four subsidiary is about to uses, Scalici also pointed out, redo the former municipal can put tax-exempt schools building in Sidney as well. back on the tax rolls.

The next step is the formaSince meeting with tion – in the next few weeks Scalici, Downey has ranged – of a “repurposing committhe Southern Tier and tee” of a half-dozen members, Northeast Pennsylvania in said Unatego Superintendent search of successful models. of Schools Dave Richards.

Last August, he visited the The goal, said Downey, is private SEPP Group’s Harry

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would have to go through zoning and other local reviews, he said.

Still, the situation is in flux.

Buzz Hesse, who led a community group that sought to keep Otego Elementary from closing, originally supported keeping the building in public hands.

When Peter Pan arrived at Pleasure Island, Hesse explained said, it didn’t turn out to be such a delight; likewise, if the building were to go into private hands, it would be out of community control.

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Legal notice SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO Index No. 0925/2013 CITIMORTGAGE, INC., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, INC., Plaintiff -againstMARTIN FREIMANN and “John Doe” and/or “Jane Doe” # 1-10 inclusive, the last ten names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, her persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporation, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, Defendants SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises 1023 Country Highway 20 Edmeston, New York 13335 Section: 124.00 Block: 1 Lots: 2.02 & 2.05 We are attempting to collect a debt, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. To the above-named defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the plaintiff’s attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) or within (60) days after service of this summons if it is the United States of America; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgement will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING

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YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgement may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT This is an action to foreclose a mortgage lien on the premises described herein. The object of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $171,000 and interest, recorded in the Office of the County Clerk of Otsego County on July 18, 2007 in Liber 1528, Page 560, covering premises known as 1023 COUNTY HIGHWAY 20, EDMESTON, COUNTY OF OTSEGO, STATE OF NEW YORK (Section 124, Block 1, Lot 2.02 and 2.05).

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgement directing the sale of the premises described above.

The Plaintiff also seeks a deficiency judgement against the Defendant, MARTIN FREIMANN, for any debt secured by said Mortgage which is not satisfied by the proceeds of the sale of said premises, unless discharged in bankruptcy.

FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004 P: (212) 471-5100

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY UNDER NEW YORK LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LAW 1. The name of the limited liability company (“LLC”) is Blue Tree Virtual Services LLC. 2. The date of filing of the Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State is April 10, 2017.

3. The County within the State of New York in which the principal office of the LLC is located is Otsego.

4. The Secretary of State of the State of New York is hereby designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him or her is: 113 Lee Drive, Maryland, NY 12116.

5. The character or purpose of the business of the LLC is any purpose allowed by law.

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Notice of Formation of a Professional Limited Liability Company (PLLC): Principle Design Engineering, PLLC, Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/31/17.

Office location: Chenango County.

SSNY designated PLLC agent upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Principle Design Engineering, PLLC, Attn: Michael O’Reilly, PE, 1103 County Road 19, Norwich, NY 13815.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Date of dissolution: None.

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Name: TRINITY KEEP LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 28 March 2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 192 Main St, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: TRINITY MEAT COMPANY LLC.

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Cooperstown, New York, 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Notice of Formation of HIGH PEAKS BREWING COMPANY, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on March 21, 2017. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: The LLC, P.O. Box 827, Oneonta, NY 13820.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of BANKICH ELECTRIC LLC

Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 28 March 2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 192 Main St, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Arts. of Org filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/02/2017. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 627 Winney Hill Road, Oneonta, New York 13820. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FILING OF ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION IN NEW YORK

BY A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

Name: Pipeline Safety Advisors LLC Articles of organization filing date with the Secretary of State (SSNY) was December 22, 2016.

Office location Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 25 Railroad Avenue Suite 2C,

Name: Chestnut 76, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Sec. of State of NY (SOS) on 6/10/2004.

Office location: Otsego County.

SOS is designated as agent of LLC for service of process.

SOS shall mail copy of process to c/o Oxford Group, 388 East Main Street, Branford,

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO Index No.

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Mortgaged Premises 34 Ontio Terrace Unadilla, New York 13849 Section: 334.14 Block: 1 Lot(s): 37.00 Mortgaged Premises: 34 Ontio Terrace, Unadilla, New York 13849 Kondaur Capital Corporation, as Separate Trustee of Matawin Ventures Trust Series 20143, Plaintiff -against JONATHAN D. SWIFT; MICHELLE L. SWIFT; BASSETT MEDICAL CENTER; TRI-TOWN REGIONAL HOSPITAL; “JOHN DOE” and “MARY DOE,” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants, tenants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants

To The Above Named Defendant(s): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. If you fail to appear or to answer within the aforementioned time frame, judgment will be taken against you

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by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECTIVE of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a Mortgage to secure $106,118.00 and interest, recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office on July 26, 2007 in Book 1528, Page 1167, Instrument Number 2007-00056914, covering premises known as 34 Ontio Terrace, Unadilla, New York 13849.

The relief sought herein is a final judgment directing sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial.

Venue is based upon the County in which the Mortgaged Premises is located.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. This Communication is from a debt collector in an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff, 85 Broad Street,

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the entity is P & L Properties VI, LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on May 12, 2015.

The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is 168 Sugar Hill Road, Cooperstown, New York 13326.

The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law. 6LegalApr27 Legal nOtice

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Name: Cooperstown Escape Rooms, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/2/17.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 73 Main St. 2nd Floor, Cooperstown NY 13326 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of TUMBLE HILL FARM, LLC A Limited Liability Company.

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Articles of Organization were filed with the New York State Secretary of State on March 3, 2017. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: Tumble Hill Farm, LLC of 197 Algerine Hill Road, East Worcester, New York 12064.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WhatCannaDo LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State on January 27, 2017. The office location within New York is in Otsego County.

The Secretary of State is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to c/o THE LLC, PO Box 108, Gilbertsville, New York 13776. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE of FORMATION of LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Marlinspike Operations, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the N.Y. Secretary of State on February 22, 2017.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County, New York.

The Secretary of State is the designated agent of the LLC, upon whom processes may be

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Historian/Detective Reconstructs Disappearance Of C&MV Railroad MYSTERY/From B1 ly’s Corner light, seeing how far he might follow the railbed. Harland Smith happened to be working in his driveway, and Loudon pulled over to engage him in conversation.

It was then he learned of the never-to-be Cooperstown & Mohawk Valley Railroad up the west side of Otsego Lake and the “Millionaires’ Lawsuit” fought through the courts in the first decade of the 20th century that eventually blocked it.

Harland Smith, by happenstance, turned out to be a descendant of Arthur Smith of Springfield Center, president of the C&MV (which became the Cooperstown & Northern in 1906 until expiring in 1910.)

About the same time, Loudon was tending the Leatherstocking Historical Railroad Association’s booth at the county fair in Morris, and struck up a conversation with a contractor from Hartwick. (He doesn’t remember the man’s name.)

As it happened, the contractor owned a camp at Five Mile Point and believed the C&N’s railbed ran behind his property. And so it did, Loudon concluded during an onsite inspection that further piqued his interest.

Loudon had a living to make and two sons to raise. He was a co-founder, with Bruce Hodges, of the Leatherstocking railroad association. And he wrote four other books, two on railroads, one on Oneonta’s Electric Lake and a fourth on the Central New York Fair, an Oneonta institution for decades.

Still, he never forgot that mysterious railbed to nowhere, and now has produced his fifth both, “The Cooperstown & Northern: Otsego’s Forgotten Railroad.” He’ll introduce it at the annual meeting of the Leatherstocking railroad association at noon Saturday, April 22, at Brooks BBQ. His research began 2-3 years ago as it has for all his railroad books – in the county clerk’s office in Cooperstown, where surveyors’ maps of every railroad contemplated in Otsego County are on file. (There were three dozen railroads contemplated; only a handful were built.)

Loudon then submerged himself on the lower floor of the NYSHA Library, painstakingly reviewing microfilm of the newspapers of the day, week by week, month by month, and eventually year by year.

A rationale emerged. The Delaware & Hudson was carrying coal from Pennsylvania to Albany, and then back west along the Mohawk Valley. As early at 1870, a Cooperstownto-Ilion line was proposed to cut the corner and thus saving hundreds of miles of freight costs.

Several other plans emerged in the last quarter of the 19th century, but the most vigorous effort – and, in the end, the last – was the C&MV. At first, all seemed rosy for, as The Freeman’s Journal editorialized in 1905, “one of the more picturesque journeys to be found anywhere. Gliding along the mountainside, thru the woodlands, curving gracefully along a mountain, then crossing a bridge and swinging out again in to the full view of Otsego Lake, the trains will afford a delightful trip for those who appreciate the charms of nature.”

Opposition soon emerged.

Dr. Robert McKim, who owned the building at the top of Westridge Road, most recently Brenda Berstler’s B&B, granted a right-of-way, then “for some reason … changed his mind,” Loudon reports.

Confident the setback would be temporary, the C&MV investors set up construction headquarters at the Drake Farm, across Pierstown Road from Leatherstocking Falls. Hopscotching over Edward S. Clark’s Fenimore Farm (now The Farmers’ Museum), the crews of Italian immigrants – at first 30 men, rising to 50 at its height – began building the railbed on the Frederick De Peyster Townsend property (now Brookwood Point).

At the same time, C&MV investor Amos Farnum began cutting timber along the lake’s west side for rail ties and, rumor had it, for a grand hotel near Five Mile Point to be served by the line.

“The opposition” was soon in court, and various delays and false starts followed, culminating in the “Millionaires Suit” filed in 1907

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They hired William Barclay Parsons, “the foremost railroad engineer of the day” and builder of New York City’s subways, to offer expert testimony that the C&MV proposed route was untenable.

On the other side, Hyde Hall’s George Hyde Clarke of the day began investing with his Springfield Center neighbors in the C&MV’s success.

At one point, the state Board of Railroad Commissioners actually issued a “certificate of need” that would have allowed the right-of-way to be completed by eminent domain, but the victory was short lived.

On Jan. 8, 1908, the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court, swayed by Parsons’ expert testimony, threw out the “certificate of need.” The investors never recovered.

The second chapter of Loudon’s book deals with the troubles of the Fort Plain & Richfield Springs Railroad – the intention was for the two to connect a couple of hundred yards north of Kelly’s Corners. That also was not to be.

Looking back a century and a quarter, Loudon writes, “it would be easy to imagine a dozen freight trains rumbling through Cooperstown on a daily basis.” But, he concludes, “if the roads had been built, Cooperstown would not have retained the bucolic charm for which it is famous, and might never have become The Village of Museums.”

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Bookhout Funeral Home, 357 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-8600 or visit https://www. facebook.com/Bookhout-FuneralHome-134554879930024/ EASTER BUNNY PHOTOS – Noon-4 p.m. Fun for the whole family. Children 10 an under take photos with the Easter bunny.

Cost, $8. Please bring non-perishable food donations to Help Stomp Out Hunger. Southside Mall, Oneonta. Info, https://www. facebook.com/southsidemall/ EASTER EVENTS – Noon-1 p.m. Includes an Easter Egg Hunt, Face Painting at Pioneer Park, Snacks at the Tunnicliff, and photos with the Easter Bunny. Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz will be announcing. Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. Info, contact Rich McCaffery richcooperstown@ gmail.com or call 547-5256 or visit http://richcooperstown. org/easter-in-cooperstown/ EASTER BUNNY EXPRESS – 1 p.m. Hop aboard the train with the Easter Bunny and friends.

Cost, $20 adults, $19 seniors, $17 children, children 3 and under ride free. Free snacks and refreshments for all. Milford Depot, 136 E. Main St., Milford.

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Sunrise service, followed by brunch at 9 a.m. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 4324102, http://www.firstumconeonta.com/ EASTER SUNDAY – 8:30 a.m.

St. Mary Eucharist Liturgy & Renewal of Baptismal Promises.

St. Mary’s Church, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-3929, http://www.stmarysoneonta.org/ EASTER BREAKFAST – 8:309:15 a.m. The “Red Door” Church, First United Presbyterian, 2 Walling Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-7520 or visit https:// www.facebook.com/TheRedDoorChurch/ EASTER SUNDAY – 8:30 a.m.

Resurrection Service with Communion. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-4102, http://www.firstumc-oneonta. com/ EASTER WORSHIP – 10 a.m.

St. Mary Eucharist Liturgy & Renewal of Baptismal Promises.

St. Mary’s Church, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-3929, http://www.stmarysoneonta.org/ EASTER SUNDAY – 10 a.m.

Solemn Festival Eucharist. St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-1458, http://stjamesoneonta.org/ EASTER SERVICE – 10 a.m.

The “Red Door” Church, First United Presbyterian, 2 Walling Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 4327520, https://www.facebook. com/TheRedDoorChurch/ EASTER SUNDAY – 10 a.m.

“This is why we Sing” with Rev. Elsie Rhodes. First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5478401 or visit https://www.facebook.com/CooperstownPres/ EASTER SUNDAY – 10:30 a.m. Service of the Resurrection. United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Cooperstown.

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Info/reservations, (607) 4314227, or email theatre@hartwicki.edu. Additional info, Alyssa Fox at foxa@hartwick.edu FOR-DO BOOK CLUB – 4-7 p.m. Feel like you don’t read enough, come to this book club. The group votes on the book to be read. At The Turning Point, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info, http://www.friendsofrecoverydo. org/events EASTER EVE – 7:30 p.m. The Great Vigil and First Communion of Easter. Gather Lychgate on River St., Cooperstown. Info, http://www.christchurchcooperstown.org/ THEATER – 8 p.m. “Twelfth Night, or What You Will” by William Shakespeare. The classic story of mistaken identity and love is adapted by the Hartwick College Theater Arts Department to the setting of a 1980s night club. Admission, $5 students, $10 public. Slade Theater, Yager Hall, Hartwick College, Oneonta.

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IN MEMORIAM Anthony Chicorelli, 99; WWII Navy Vet Lived Peacefully In Town Of Maryland ONEONTA – Anthony Chicorelli, 93, a Navy veteran of World War II who retired from Allied Corp., died Thursday, March 30, 2017, from natural causes.

He was born June 25, 1923, son of Eugenio and Alessandra (Pallottolo) Ciccarelli. Affectionately known as Tony to friends and family, he married Frances Louise Beach in 1942.

Frances left this world too soon, on May 20, 1993, 69 years young.

Tony grew up on Anne Street, one of six children, whose parents taught them to make wine from grapes, grow tomatoes from the vine, and drink vinegar from the cupboard. He was a member of the Greatest Generation, one of many who answered the call and served in the Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II. But like so many of his generation, he never talked about it. “It’s in the past,” he would say. He

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was honorably discharged after the war.

Tony had several careers after the war: owner of a local bar, Time Out; worker at the D&H Railroad, where he almost lost his leg in an accident, and at Allied Corp., where he retired in 1985 after 23 years of loyal service.

Tony returned home after the war and raised three children with Frances, who had a personality that only could be rivaled by his. Tony built their family house in the Town of Maryland, where he lived from

1963 until his passing.

Tony and Frances owned and raced a horse or two and would often take Anthony Chicorelli their grandkids out to see them. Their grandchildren – James, Jeffrey, Christopher, Michael, Anne Marie, Mary Frances and Katherine Frances – adored their grandparents.

Tony was well-liked, with

an epic personality and wit to boot. He had an unforgettable laugh and a smile that was as charming as it was wide. As he grew older, he developed a simple, five note hum that one could hear as Tony strolled around the house.

Tony is survived by three children: Danny of Severn, Md., and Dennis and Karen in the Town of Maryland; three siblings, John Chicorelli, Mary (Chicorelli) Leogrande and Rafaela Chicorelli, all of Oneonta; seven grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren,

one great-great-grandchild, and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Tony was predeceased by his two brothers, Alexander Chicorelli and Joseph Chicorelli, both of Oneonta.

A funeral mass was celebrated Tuesday April 11, at St. Mary’s Church, Oneonta, with Rev. David Mickiewicz, pastor, officiating.

Burial with military honors will take place in Mount Calvary Cemetery.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta.

Robert Anderson, 78; Retired From Edmeston Farm To Oneonta ONEONTA – Robert B. Anderson, 78, of Oneonta, former Laurens town highway superintendent after retiring from farming in West Edmeston, died unexpectedly Wednesday March 29, 2017, in Oneonta.

Bob was born April 1, 1938, in Canandaigua, son of the late Robert E. and Norma Bulman Anderson.

He was a graduate of Victor Central School prior to working for the state Thruway. Soon after, Bob joined the Coast Guard.

He spent 20 years with

Daisy Rodriguez, Oneonta, Worked At Sanyo, Annutto ONEONTA – Daisy Sue Rodriguez, 59, passed away unexpectedly while taking care of her son on Sunday, April 2, 2017, in Schenectady.

She was born Oct. 22, 1957, in Oneonta, the daughter of the late William and Ruby May (Kingsley) Stone.

Daisy graduated from Unatego Central School and then Utica School of Commerce.

For many years she worked for Sanyo in Oneonta and took several trips to Japan. She also worked at Annutto’s Farm Stand. She owned her own cleaning service, “Clean as a Daisy” and for the past several years, Daisy helped take care of the Otego Evergreen Cemetery.

She took pride in making it look nice. She also worked for Royce at Otego Sales making deliveries.

Daisy enjoyed taking cruises and dancing, most recently she was taking dancing lessons.

Daisy was the most kind and loving person you’ve ever known.

Daisy is survived by her son, William Rodriguez of Oneonta; her companion, Royce Livingston of Otego; siblings, John, Bill, Ray and Donna; and her second family, Ljiljana, Branko Jr. and Nik Bacanovic.

She was predeceased by her siblings, Ruthy and Mike.

A memorial service took place Sunday, April 9, at the Bookhout Funeral Home, 357 Main St., Oneonta with the Rev. Fred Albrecht officiating.

Rochester Gas & Electric as a lineman and foreman. Following his retirement from RG&E, he purchased a dairy farm in West Edmeston, which he operated with his son Steve for 10 years. Following his time on the farm, he drove trucks for various companies before purchasing his own rig.

Bob was also the Town of Laurens highway superintendent, and worked for

Seward Sand & Gravel.

He also gave his time to the town boards of Victor, Edmeston, and Laurens.

He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Janet Spooner Anderson of Oneonta; sons Christopher (Sandy) Anderson, Steven (Wendy) Anderson, Timothy (Delfina) Anderson, and step-son Jeremy (Tammy) Hilts. Also, grandchildren Zachary, Jacob, Sarah, Jordan, Danny,

Dane, and Dean Anderson and step-grandsons Dustin and Will Martin.

At Bob’s request, there will be no calling hours or services. Expressions of sympathy may be made to the American Cancer Society, or the American Heart Association in Bob’s memory.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Delker and Terry Funeral Home, Edmeston.

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Sunday April 16

EASTER EGG HUNT – 10:30 a.m. Community Easter event in the Court yard, weather permitting, followed by a visit with some Rabbits at 10:45 a.m.

Focus Nursing & Rehab Center, 128 Phoenix Mills Cross Rd., Cooperstown. Info, Amy Rose, Activities Director, 544-2672.

EASTER WORSHIP – 10:30 a.m. Services with the Christian Science Society of Oneonta.

Upper Room, First Presbyterian Church, “Red Door� Church, 381 Main St., Oneonta. Info, http://www.christiansciencenys. com/oneonta.html EASTER WORSHIP – 10:45 a.m. Celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord. First Presbyterian Church, 296 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607)432-4286 or visit https://www.facebook. com/First-Presbyterian-Churchof-Oneonta-219491214731749/ EASTER BUFFET – 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Enjoy an Easter dinner with delicious food made by Chef Danielle, of Hell’s Kitchen fame.

Includes a bread station, salad station, Scottish smoked salmon, seasonal spring vegetables, and a chef attended carving station. The Lake House, 2521 Co. Hwy. 22, Richfield Springs. Info, http://cooperstownlakehouse.com/ EASTER BUNNY EXPRESS – 1 p.m. Hop aboard the train with the Easter Bunny and friends.

Cost, $20 adults, $19 seniors, $17 children, children 3 and under ride free. Free snacks and refreshments for all. Milford Depot, 136 E. Main St., Milford.

Info, call (607)432-2429 or visit http://www.lrhs.com/ FILM SCREENING – 2 p.m.

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Monday April 17

MEETING – 10 a.m. The Board of Directors of the Legal aid Society of Mid-New York, Inc. will be meeting. 268 Genesee St., Utica.

Info, Maria Gregorka (315)-7937057 or email maria.gregorka@ lasmny.org DRAWING GROUP – 7-9 p.m.

Come practice drawing with a live model. $10 donation. To attend call the Cooperstown Art Association, (607)547-9777

Tuesday April 18

LIBRARY AMNESTY – All Day. Return your overdue library books and have your fees waived. Items from other library’s not eligible. Cooperstown Village Library. Info, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar CYBERMOBILE – 9:30-9:50 a.m. Town Hall, 3966 NY-23, West Oneonta. Info, www.4cls.org or call (607)723-8236 CYBERMOBILE – 10:10-10:50

Little Lambs Children Center, 383 Co Rd 11, Oneonta. Info, www.4cls.org or call (607)7238236 ADDICTION WORKSHOP – 10:30-11:30 a.m. Study “The Heart of Addiction� with Pastor Jack Klosheim. Bring your own book and workbook. Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego County, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info, call (607)2674435 or email kyle@friendsofrecoverydo.org or visit http://www. friendsofrecoverydo.org/events CYBERMOBILE – 12:20-12:45 p.m. Methodist Church, 811 Co Rd 26, Fly Creek. Info, www.4cls. org or call (607)723-8236 CYBERMOBILE – 1:15-1:35 p.m. Methodist Church, 2343 NY205, Mt Vision. Info, www.4cls. org or call (607)723-8236 KNITTING GROUP – 1:30-3 p.m.

Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown, http:// www.villagelibraryofcooperstown. org/calendar CYBERMOBILE – 2:10-2:30 p.m. Firehouse, 116 County Rd 4, Wells Bridge. Info, www.4cls. org or call (607)723-8236 SUPPORT GROUP – 2:15 p.m.

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Learn about issues in climate change with Wnonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food and Water Watch, author of Foodopoly and Frackopoly. Hunt Union, Red Dragon ballroom, SUNY Oneonta.

HEALTH ORGANIZATION – 6:30-7:30 p.m. Learn how to keep your healthcare papers organized with professional organizer and RN Karen Sheesley.

Registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info/registration, 432-1980 or visit http://hmloneonta.org/calendar/ PRESENTATION – 7-8 p.m.

Local photographer Richard

Duncan discusses how Taoism has affected his life and career.

Cooperstown Village Library. Info, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar COMMON COUNCIL – 7 p.m.

Common Council chambers, City Hall, 258 Main St., Oneonta. Info, http://www.oneonta.ny.us/common-council/

Wednesday April 19

P.A.L.S. – 9:30 a.m. Parents and their infants/toddlers are invited to play, read together, learn basic sign language, and play music. cost, $4 public, free for members. Every Wednesday to 4/26. Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford ave., Oneonta. Info, http:// www.oneontaymca.org/upcoming-events.html AMAZING AMPHIBIANS – 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Get your elementary aged children out and learn about the amphibians that are waking up from winter and explore Thayer farm to learn which ones live there. Meet at Upland Interpretive Center at Thayer Farm, 7027 State Highway 80, Springfield. Info, http:// occainfo.org/calendar/get-kidsamazing-amphibians/ CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR – 10:30-11:30 a.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St.., Cooperstown. Info, http://www. villagelibraryofcooperstown. org/calendar ART DISCUSSION – 12:302:30 p.m. Join artist Tracey Helgeson for this weeks Food for Thought discussion exploring her exhibit “Between Observation and Imagination: Paintings by Tracy Helgeson.� Registration re-

quired. Cost, $25 members, $30 non-members. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.fenimoreartmuseum. org/lectures or call (607) 5471461 DISCUSSION GROUP – 35 p.m. Discussion of current events. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

Info, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar MINECRAFT – 3:30-5:30 p.m. Open hours, no registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/youth-programs/ GUITAR BASICS – 5-7 p.m.

Learn to play guitar with John Arlet. Must have your own guitar.

Space is limited. Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info/reservation, (607)267-4435 or visit http://www.friendsofrecoverydo. org/events CONSERVATION WORKSHOP – 6-8 p.m. “iMapInvasives Training: New York’s Online Invasive Species Database and Mapping System.� Use an online mapping service to record specific sightings of invasive species. Otsego No, 189 Main St., Suite 500, Oneonta. Info, (518)234-4303 or email schoharie@cornell.edu or visit http://cceschoharie-otsego. org/ YARN CLUB – 6:30-7:45 p.m.

For knitters and crocheters of all skill levels and ages. Come learn a new skills and work on your current projects. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/calendar/

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